Patti Smith
Patti Smith
Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith is an American singer-songwriter, poet, and visual artist who became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPunk Singer
Date of Birth30 December 1946
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
romantic love-is fire
Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.
mother answers mail
My mother answers all my fan mail.
fall communication territory
When I perform I always opt for communication with God and in pursuit of communicating with God you can fall into some very dangerous territory. I have also come to realize that total communication with God is physical death.
path crosses
Paths that cross will cross again
paris gutters dies
Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.
yesterday rocks political
Everybody's got to reclaim these thingspoetry, rock'n'roll, political activismand it's got to be done over and over again. It's like eating: you can't say,'Oh, I ate yesterday'.You have to eat again.
jesus sin just-kids
Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine.
future dark arrows
Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake.
fate secret helping
Fate is like a secret friend that helps push you on into life.
brother future heart
Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.
taken hands world
For I desired, as Youth does, to be taken by the hand and hurled into the world.
expression soul your-soul
Your soul was like a network of spittle.
work moving quota
Hey sister, you're just moving too fast, you're screwing up the quota.
blessedness
Blessedness is within us all.